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MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ

Born in Falenty, , 1930. Lived and worked in , Poland. Died 2017.

EDUCATION

1950 – 1954 Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

TEACHING

1965 – 1990 Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland 1984 Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galerie Marlborough Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Magdalena Abakanowicz: Mutations, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago

2015 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, New York Magdalena Abakanowicz: Bambini, St. Elisabeth Church, , Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crowd and Individual, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, , Italy

2014 New York Avenue Project: Magdalena Abakanowicz, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

2013 Abakanowicz? Abakanowicz!, The House of the Visual Artist, Warsaw, Poland Magdalena Abakanowicz: A Survey 1987-2009, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York

2012 Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Human Adventure, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey Magdalena Abakanowicz: Walking Figures, Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, New York, New York

2011 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Life and Work, The Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic

2010 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Davidson College Art Gallery, North Carolina Magdalena Abakanowicz: Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York

2009 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany

Magdalena Abakanowicz: Space to Experience, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche, Bad Homburg, Germany

2008 – 2009 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain Magdalena Abakanowicz - Birds, Conglomerates, Ghosts, Spirits, Beck and Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany Magdalena Abakanowicz: Hurma, 1994-1995, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Florida King Arthur’s Court, Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany

2008 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Reality of Dreams, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain. Magdalena Abakanowicz, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), València, Spain

2007 Magdalena Abakanowicz - et Dessins, Galerie Patrice Trigano, , France Magdalena Abakanowicz, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, NMWA, New York, New York Magdalena Abakanowicz, Taguchi Fine Art, Ltd. Tokyo, Japan

2006 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Trondheim Art Museum, Norway Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Drawings, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan Magdalena Abakanowicz: Sculptures et Dessins, Marlborough Monaco, Monte-Carlo, Monaco

2005 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Hungary Space to Experience: The Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida La Foule V, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, France Magdalena Abakanowicz: Im Dialog VI, Stadtkirche Darmstadt, Germany Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York The Gigant and The Son of Gigant, The Fields Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Park Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, New York Magdalena Abakanowicz: Confessions, Sculpture and Drawings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

2004 – 2005 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Backward Seated Figures, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York

2004 Mutation and Crystallization, Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia Hurma, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France; traveled to L’Espace d’Art Contemporain André-Malraux, Colmar, France Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Melchior, Jonas and the eight White Faces, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan

2003 Dancing Figures, Marlborough Fine Art, , Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Long Wait, MacLaren Art Cenre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada Magdalena Abakanowicz: Tanzende und Schreitende, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany

Abakanowicz, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, Netherlands Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Skulls, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan Coexistence, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy

2002 Museum Narodowe, Poznan, Poland

2001 Magdalena Abakanowicz, About the Human Condition, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California; traveled to Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Pillsbury Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas Space to Experience, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Point State Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Crowd IV and Infantes, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

2000 Working Process, Guiliano Gori Collection, Spazi d’Arte, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy Ninety Five Figures from the Crowd of One Thousand Ninety Five Figures, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York Abakanowicz, Warsaw Opera House, Warsaw, Poland

1999 Abakanowicz on the Roof, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Abakanowicz dans les Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris, France Camminando, 30 Basel Art Fair, Basel, Wild Flowers, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York

1998 Starmach Gallery, Kraków, Poland Magdalena Abakanowicz, "melchior, jonas and the eight white faces," Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan Sculptures, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland

1997 – 1998 Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France

1997 Mutants, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida

1996 – 1997 Doris Freedman Plaza, New York, New York

1996 Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark; traveled to Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockhom, Sweden

1995 Els Jardins de Can Altamira, Barcelona, Spain Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland The Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England

1994 Magdalena Abakanowicz – The Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Wisconsin April 9 – June 12, 1994 Galeria Kordegarda, Warsaw, Poland; traveled to Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland

Galeriá Marlborough S.A., Madrid, Spain Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

1993 Magdalena Abakanowciz - BWA, Krakow, Poland War Games, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York Recent Sculpture, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; traveled to Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

1992 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Arboreal Architecture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York

1991 Retrospective exhibition, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to The , Shiga, Japan; Art Tower, Mito, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1990 Magdalena Abakanowicz – Sculpture and Drawings, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Sculpturen, Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin, Germany Magdalena Abakanowicz, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, The Netherlands Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Marlborough Fine Art, London, England

1989 Städtliche Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York [cat.]

1988 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Mücsarnok (Palace of Exhibitions), Budapest, Hungary Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri Les Sarcophages, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France Magdalena Abakanowicz: Inkarnationen – War Games, Turske & Turske, Zurich, Switzerland [cat.]

1987 Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych I Muzeum Chemitex – Stilon, Gorzow Weilkopolski, Poland Muku Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan Turske & Turske, Zurich, Switzerland [cat.] Rathaus und Galerie im Ganserhaus, Wasserburg/Inn, West Germany

1986 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C. Galeria Sztuki Sceny Plastycznej Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, Lublin, Poland

1985 Galerie Alice Pauli, , Switzerland Abakanowicz: About Men – Sculpture 1974-1985, Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York, New York

1983 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Charcoal Drawings, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska

1982 – 1984 Retrospective exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Chicago Public Library

Cultural Center [cat.]; traveled to Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada; National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.; De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas; Portland Art Museum and Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon; Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery of the University of California, Los Angeles, California, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

1982 Abakanowicz : Alterations, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France [cat.] Magdalena Abakanowicz : 21 dessins au fusain, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France [cat.] Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, and Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

1980 XXXIX Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Polish Pavilion, Venice, Italy [cat.]

1978 Magdalena Abakanowicz : Tkanina, Biuro Wystaw Artstycznych (BWA), Lodz, Poland [cat.] Salon Sztuki Wspolczesnej, BWA, Bydogoszcz, Poland [cat.]

1977 Organic Structures, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden [cat.], traveled to Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Norway

1976 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Organic Structures and Soft Forms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney [cat.], traveled to: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

1975 Abakanowicz: Organic Structures and Human Forms, Whitechapel Art Gallery London, England [cat.] Gallery Zacheta, Centralne Biuro Wyztaw Artystycznych Warsaw, Poland [cat.]

1974 Doswiadczenia I Poszukiwania, Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland

1973 Rope Structures, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England

1972 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Strukturen und Konstruktionen, Environments, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany [cat.] Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland

1971 The Fabric Forms of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California [cat.] Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galeria Wspolczesna, Warsaw, Poland [cat.]

1970 Abakanowicz: en konfrontation, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden [cat.] Magdalena Abakanowicz/Textil Sculptur/Textile Environment, Sodertalje Konsthall, Sweden [cat.]

1969 Stedelijk Museum, Arnhem, Holland Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland Magdalena Abakanowicz: Tapisserien und Raumliche Texturen, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany [cat.]

1968 Abakanowicz: 2-en 3 dimensionale weefsels, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland; traveled to Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands (1969); Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland (1969) Abakanowicz, Eine Polnische Textilkunstlerin – Zuricher Kunstgesellschaft, Helmhaus, Zurich,

Switzerland [cat.]

1967 Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway; traveled to Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, Bergen, Norway; Stavanger Kunstforening, Stavanger, Norway; Trondheim Kunstsforening, Trondheim, Norway [cat.]

1965 Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

1962 Tapisseries, Magdalena Abakonowicz, Pologne, Galerie Dautzenberg, Paris, France Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland [cat.] Abakanowicz: Structures organiques et forms humaines, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland [cat.]

1960 Wystawa prac Magdaleny Abakanowicz - Kosmowskiej, Kordegarda, Ministertwo Kultury i Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland [cat.]

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND BIENNIALS

2016 Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016, Hauser Wirth and Shimmel, Los Angeles, California [cat.]

2015 – 2016 Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee [cat.]; The Ringling Museum of Art, Florida State University, Sarasota, Florida. Art_Textiles, The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

2015 War Games: A Group Exhibition Inspired by the Work of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York

2014 – 2015 Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present, Institute of Contemporary Art , Boston, Massachusetts; traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2015); Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa (2015) [cat.]

2014 Carved, Cast, Crumpled: Sculpture All Ways, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Committed to Paper: Master Drawings and Prints by Sculptors, Frederick Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids, Michigan For Each Gesture Another Character, Art Stations Foundationby Grazyna Kulczyk, Poznan, Poland

2012 Beaufort04, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Schore, Belgium

2011 Art on a Lake, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary The Power of Fantasy, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium Sleight of Hand, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

2009 Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche, Bad Homburg, Germany La Escultura en la Colección del IVAM, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Centro Julio Gonzalez,

Valencia, Spain Rites of Spring, Long House Reserve, East Hampton, New York Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York The 5th Edition of CCA’s International Art Collection, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland Elles, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2008 – 2009 Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York Paysages Urbains, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Skulptur!, Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York Works on Paper, Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece

2008 (Un)common threads, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, New York

2007 – 2008 Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany Blikaschen 6 – Skulpturen im Kurpark Bad Homburg, Galerie Scheffel in Zusammenarbeit mit der Yorshire Sculpture Park, Bad Homburg, Germany Femme y es-tu?, Art Sénat, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, France Figura Humana y Abstracción, Würth Museo La Rioja, Agoncillo, Spain Painting and Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York Residenz München, Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany

2007 Wit and Whimsy, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York Wack ! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; traveled to National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; P.S 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (2008); Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia (2008 – 2009)

2006 Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York Contemporary Sculpture, Zwirner and Wirth, New York, New York Die obere Hälfte – Die Büste von Rodin bis Wang Du, Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland Sztuka XX Wieku, The National Museum in Warsaw, The Gallery of 20th Century Polish Art, Warsaw, Poland To the Human Future – from The Dark Side, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan Was ist Plastic? 100 Jahre – 100 Kopfe – Das Jahrundert moderner Sculptur, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Center of International Sculpture, Duisburg, Germany Weltanschauung, Visione del Mondo, Palazzo Belmonte Riso, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palermo, Italy

2005 Salamanca ciudad de la escultura, Salamanca, Spain Blickachsen 5 - Skulpturen im Kurpark Bad Homburg, Galerie Scheffel In Zusammenarbeit mit der Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Bad Homburg, Germany Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan Sculptures Monumentales à Saint-Tropez, La Citadelle, Saint Tropez, France Open Spaces, Vancouver Sculpture Biennale, Vancouver, Canada

2004 Monocromos de Malevich al presente, Museo Nacioal Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

2003 Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida

Figuratively Speaking, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey Me and More, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

2002 La Parade des Animaux, Festival International de Sculpture de Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo, Monaco Les Jeux dans l'Art du XXeme Siecle, Biarritz, France Los Juegos en el Arte del siglo XX, Zaragoza, Spain OPEN2002 International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Venice Lido, Italy

2001 In Between - Art from Poland, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois Animal Sculptures of the 20th Century, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Mie Prefectural Museum, Japan Europalia 2001, Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Liege, France Den Haag Sculptuur, Carnaval des Animaux, Hague, Holland

2000 L’Homme qui Marche, Les Jardins du Palais Royale, Paris L’autre moitié de l’Europe, National Gallery Jeu de Paume, Paris Verteirdigung der Moderne Positionen der Polnischen Kunst nach 1945, Museum Wurth, Kunzelsau, Germany

1999 To the Rescue, Eight Artists in an Archive, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, New York, New York

1997 Summer 1997 Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey Luxembourg Ville de la Sculpture, Luxembourg, Luxembourg 47 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale d’Arte di Venezia Venice, Italy, upon the invitation of the Mayor of Venice, installation of Hand-like Trees on Riva degli Schiavone A Century of Sculpture – The Nasher Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York Human Nature, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina Inauguration of the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

1996 Les Champs de la Sculpture, Paris, France Horizons, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, South Korea

1995 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy After Auschwitz, Royal Festival Hall, London, England After Hiroshima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Unser Jahrhundert-Our Century, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

1994 Europa, Europa, Kunsthalle, Bonn, Germany Itinere – Camino e Caminantes, Centro Galego de Arte Contempranea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

1993 The Fujisankei Biennale, International Exhibition for Contemporary Sculpture, Japan The Human Factor: Figurative Sculpture Reconsidered, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1992 …Reperti…Environment through the Eyes of 18 of the World’s Major Artists, Museo Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Mask, Race, Expression, TOM Gallery of Touch-Me-Art, Tokyo, Japan

1991 Human Figures from Ancient to Modern – Gallery Ueda Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

1990 New Works for New Spaces: Into the Nineties – Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio [cat.] 1989 Eastern European Art Since 1960 – Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio [cat.] Artluminium – La Maison Alcan, La Galerie d’Art Lavalin, Montreal, Canada Figuratively Speaking: Drawings by Seven Artists – Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, New York [cat.]

1988 Olympiad of Art, 1988 Olympic Games, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seoul, South Korea [cat.] Figures: Form and Fiction, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York [cat.] Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, West Germany; traveled to Stadtisches Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Germany, Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin, Germany

1987 Depot de FRAC Rhone-Alpes, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Rhones-Alpes, Musee de Valence, France Ancient Inspiration, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, New York [cat.] Expressive: Central European Art since 1960, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, , Austria [cat.]; traveled to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (1988) 20th Century Art in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York The Re-Emerging Figure, The Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York

1986 The Sixth Biennale of Sydney: Origins, Originality + Beyond, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia [cat.] Eva und die Zukunft, Hamburger Kunstahalle, Hamburg, Germany [cat.] Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

1985 Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Lausanne, Switzerland Armory Pre-Selection, Parliament Building, UN Decade for Woman Conference, Nairobi, Kenya Kunst-Stoff-Kunst, Stadtische Galerie Nordhorn, West Germany [cat.] 3 Internationale Trienneale de Zeichnung, Bildhauerzeichnung Abakanowicz, Chillida, Serra, Tinguely, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremburg, West Germany [cat.] Hudorestvenaii tkan 40 leti PNR, Gossuderstvenny Muzei Muzeum Historyczno-Rewolucyjne, Ivanovo, USSR

1984 An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York [cat.] Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Orwell und die Gegenwart 1984, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria [cat.]

1983 Biennale 17 Middelheim: International Open Air Sculpture Biennale, Antwerp, Belgium

1982 Kunst Wird Material, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany [cat.] Ars ’83, Art Gallery of Helsinki, Finland [cat.]

1981 The Art Fabric: Mainstream, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. [cat.] Malmoe, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden [cat.] Czas Widzenia, Muzeum Narodowe w Gdansku, Gdansk, Poland

1980 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Polish Pavilion, Venice, Italy Sculptures Polonaises Contemporaines, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

[cat.] Warsaw – Bucharest, Museum of Modern Art, Bucharest, Romania ROSC ’80 : The Poetry of Vision, National Gallery of Ireland and School of Architecture in University College, Dublin, Ireland

1979 Weich und Plastisch/Soft-Art, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland [cat.] XV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil [cat.]

1978 Imagination, Museum Bochum, West Germany [cat.] L’espace en demeure : Louise Nevelson, Marie-Helene Vieire da Silva, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France [cat.]

1977 Fiberworks, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio [cat.] 22 Polish Textile Artists, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C. [cat.]; traveled to 14 U.S. museums

1976 Fiber Works Europe and Japan, Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan [cat.]; traveled to National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Fiber Structures, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [cat.]

1972 Edinburgh International Festival: Atelier ’72, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1969 Wall Hangings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York [cat.] Perspectief in Textiel, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [cat.]

1968 XXXIV Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

1965 VIII Biennale de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil [cat.]

1962 Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Lausanne, Switzerland

SELECTED MUSEUMS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

ê American Craft Museum, New York, New York ê The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia ê The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois ê Australian National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia ê Caracas Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela ê Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland ê Centralne Muzeum Historii Wlokiennictwa, Lodz, Poland ê Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France ê City of Elblag, Poland ê De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts ê Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa ê Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado ê Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan ê Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Rhone-Alpes, Lyon, France

ê Frans Halsmuseum, Harlem, The Netherlands ê Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej – Cwentrum Sztuki im Stanislawa Ignacego Witkiewicza, Warsaw, Poland ê Fattoria di Celle, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy ê Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany ê Hess Collection, Napa Valley, California ê Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan ê Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. ê Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan ê Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel ê Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France ê The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri ê John Kluge Collection, Charlottesville, Virginia ê Kulturhistoriska Museet, Lund, Sweden ê Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremburg, Germany ê Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway ê Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan ê Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California ê Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany ê Malmö Museum, Malmö, Sweden ê Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York ê Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France ê Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois ê Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York ê Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York ê Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, Poland ê Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland ê Museum of Modern Art Hung Kim and Lee, Pusan, South Korea ê Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico ê Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain ê Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan ê Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan ê Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden ê National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ê National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea ê Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri ê Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon ê Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey ê Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Holland ê Raymond Nasher Collection, Dallas, Texas ê Runnymede Sculpture Farm, Woodside, California ê Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser, Kunstsenter Hovikodden, Norway ê Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland ê Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York ê Seoul Olympic Garden, Seoul, South Korea ê Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan ê Sun Jeu Museum, South Korea ê Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany ê Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota ê Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington ê Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

PERMANENT OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS

2010 Crossroads, Warsaw, Poland

2009 Birds, City of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

2006 , , Chicago, Illinois 20 Vancouver Walking Figures, City of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada

2004 Big Figures, 20 bronze figures, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey (on loan from a private collector)

2003 Patti Birch Fish, bronze, Museum of Modern Art, Marrakech, Morocco Space of Stone (2001-02), 22 granite blocks, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey Open Air Aquarium, 30 stainless steel fish, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2002 Hand–like Trees (1994-95), 4 sculptures, bronze, Civic and Cultural Center of Brea, Brea, California Unrecognized,112 iron figures, Cytadel Park, Poznan, Poland

2001 Birds of Knowledge of Good and Evil, 6 sculptures, aluminum, Woman’s Club of Wisconsin, Mutants, 6 sculptures, stainless steel, collection of artist’s Garden, Warsaw, Poland Mutant, stainless steel, 160 x 65 x 340 cm, Neanderthal Museum, Mettman, Germany 2000 Figura Rompa (1995), from the cycle Hand-like Trees, bronze, Biarritz, France Manus Ultimus (1998-99), from the cycle Hand-like Trees, bronze, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France Black Crowd, 20 figures, bronze, Museum Wurth, Kunzelsau, Germany Figura Ultima (1995), from the cycle Hand-like Trees, bronze, Museum Wurth, Kunzelsau, Germany Figure on Trunk, bronze, Metropolitan Museum, New York, New York Figure on a Trunk, bronze, Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan Figure on Beam with Wheels, bronze, Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, Ohio Figure on Trunk with Wheels, bronze, two versions: Large Figure on Trunk with Wheels; Slim Figure on Trunk with Wheels, both in Spazi d’Arte, Giuliano Gori collection, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy

1999 30 Bronze Standing Figures, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri Camminando, 20 walking figures, bronze, private collection, Napa Valley, California Figura Prima (1995), from the cycle Hand-like Trees, bronze, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Puellae (1992), group of 30 figures, bronze, National Gallery of Art, Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

1998 Fish, bronze, Metropolitano Orient Station, Lisbon, Portugal

1997 – 1998 Space of Unknown Growth, 22 forms, varying dimensions, concrete, collection of Europos Parkas, Vilnius,

1997 Cecyna (1994), from the cycle Hand–like Trees, bronze, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey

1995 Bronze Crowd (1990-91), 35 bronze figures, The Nasher Collection, Dallas, Texas

1994 Sarcophagi in Glass Houses (1983-89), 4 forms; wood, metal, glass, at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York Manus, from the cycle Hand-like Trees, bronze, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington Magnus, from the cycle Hand-like Trees, bronze, Spazi d’Arte, Guiliano Gori Collection, Italy

1993 Hand-like Trees (1992), 5 sculptures, bronze, Runnymede Sculpture Farm, Woodside, California Becalmed Beings, group of 40 figures, bronze, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan One of the Crowd, bronze, Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan

1992 Sagacious Head with Standing Figure, bronze, two sculptures from the cycle, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1991 Four sculptures from the cycle Sagacious Heads (1989), bronze, John Kluge Collection, Charlottesville, Virginia

1990 Neun Figuren Raum, bronze, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

1988 Space of a Dragon, 10 metaphoric animal heads, bronze, Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea

1987 Negev, 7 discs, limestone, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1985 Katarsis, 33 figures, bronze, Spazi d’Arte, Giuliano Gori Collection, Italy

1965 Standing Shape, steel, Elblag City, Poland

SELECTED HONORS

2005 Creative Achievement, Polish Ministry of Culture Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, New York 2004 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2002 Honoris causa, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Honoris causa doctorate, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland

2001 Honoris causa doctorate, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 2000 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, , New York 2000 Visionaries Award, American Craft Museum, New York Orden pour le merite fur Wissenschaften und Kunste, Berlin, Germany Cavaliere nell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana 1999 Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris 1997 Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, Mexico 1998 Honoris causa doctorate, Academy of Fine Arts, Lódz, Poland Sächsische Akademie der Kunste - Elected honorary member, Commander Cross, Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta 1996 Honorary member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 1994 Honorary member, Akademie der Künst, Berlin 1993 Award for Distinction in Sculpture, International Sculpture Center, New York 1992 Honoris causa doctorate, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island 1982 Alfred Jurzykowski Prize, New York 1979 Gottfried bon , Vienna, Austria 1974 Honoris causa doctorate , London 1965 Grand Prix of São Paolo Biennale, Brazil

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Recent Sculpture. Marlborough, New York, NY.

2008 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Agora. Texts by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Mary Jane Jacob, and Karolina Hübner. Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago. Magdalena Abakanowicz: Where are the areas of calm?. Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain.

2007 “Abakanowicz Donates Work to Chicago.” Sculpture, Vol. 26 no. 1, January – February, 2007, p. 14. Armstrong, Carol. “Global Feminism” and “Wack!” Art Forum, May 2007, p. 362. Ayers, Robert. “The AI Interview: Magdalena Abakanowicz.” ArtInfo.com, January 17. Cotter, Holland. “The Art of Feminism as it First Took Place.” New York Times, March 9 2007, pp. 29 and 33. Hebron, Micol. “Wack! Art and the Feminine Revolution.” Flash Art, May – June 2007, pp. 91 and 93. Huebner, Jeff. “Chicago’s Agora.” Sculpture Magazine, July – August, pp. 10 – 11. “Iron Giants Invade Grant Park.” Art in America, February 2007, p. 168. Lacayo, Richard. “What Women Have Done to Art.” Time, April 2 2007. pp. 66 – 67. Mizota, Sharon. “’Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art.” Art ltd., July 2007, p. 19. McFadden, Jane. “Wack! Art and the Feminine Revolution.” Modern Painters, June 2007, p. 112. Nance, Kevin. “Agora Phobia?” ArtNews, March 2007, p. 38. Princenthal, Nancy. “Feminism Unbound.” Art in America, June – July 2007. pp. 142 – 153, mentioned on p. 148, illustrated on pp. 152 – 153. Ravenal, John B. Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London, 2007, p. 146. Rose, Barbara. “Sculpture as Environment.” Art and Antiques, April 2007, pp. 133 – 134. Yoon, James. “Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works.” American Craft, June – July 2007, pp. 36 – 41. Zetuni, Sigalit. “Agora, Art and Experience.” Chicago Life, summer 2007, p. 26.

Pincus, Robert L. “Temporary Art Program Can Leave a Lasting Impression.” San Diego Union Tribune, December 16, 2007.

2006 “A la Marlborough Monte-Carlo…Le Sculptor Polonais: Magdalena Abakanowicz.” Le Niçois, September 28 – October 4. Ahmed-Ullah, Noreen S. “Grant Park Coming Out of the Shadows.” Chicago Tribune, February 5, Nation/World. Artner, Alan G. “Provocative Achievement in Grant Park.” Chicago Tribune, November 16 2006, pp. 1 and 10. Claudiano, Claudia. “Personale di Abakanowicz al Marlborough di Monaco.” Riviera, September 29, p. 37. Ebony, David. “Magdalena Abakanowicz at Marlborough.” Art in America, April, p. 152. Hermann, Andrew. “Artists 100 Iron Giants headed to Grant Park.” Chicago Sun-Times, June 20. Meyers, Anthony D. “2005 Lifetime Achievement Award Gala October 20, 2005.” Sculpture, January/ February, p. 80.

2005 Berne, T. “In the Age of Monochrome.” Art in America, January, pp. 101-102. Artnet, Alan G. “New sculpture will strike somber note.” Chicago Tribune, March 27. Shinbun, Asahi (publisher). “Pleasures of Art Museums in Japan.” Syukan Hyakka (Weekly Encyclopedia), March, p. 29, ill. Pritchett, Kamila. “Out of Bounds: Polish Artist Breaks Riles in the Name of Art.” Eastsider, May 19, pp. cover and pp. 5, 11. Peterson, Iver. “Weirdness and Beauty Set in Stone.” , Saturday, June 18, pp. B1, B4. Abakanowicz, Magdalena. “Confession.” Sculpture, October, cover ill. and pp. 30-37. Mullarkey, Maureen. “Myth Versus Reality.” The New York Sun, October 27, p. 13. Stern, Fred. “Brutal Vision.” Artnet.com: ArtNet Magazine, November 15. “Les sculptures monumentales reviennent à la citadelle.” Var Matin, November 11. “Sculptures à la Citadelle de Saint-Tropez.” Le Bavar, 18 June - 19 July, p. 17. “La Citadelle toujours aussi sculpturale.” Le Tropezien, June. “Du monumentale à Saint Tropez.” Monaco Hebdo, 30 June - 6 July. “Kunst und Kultur an der Côte.” Background, August, p. 95. Graciano, Francesca. “Appuntamento con l’Arte à Saint-Tropez.” Il Secolo XIX, July. Natta, Federica. “Un’estate all’insegna dell’arte contemporanea.” Il Foglio Italiano, September, p. 58. “Art, mer et soleil.” Point de Vue, 24/30 August.

2004 Richards, Judith, ed. Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York. Independent Curators International: New York, pp. 130-133. Ottesen, C. “Grounds for Sculpture.” The American Gardener, May-June, pp. 34-38. Galán, Fernando. “Talking with Magdalena Abakanowicz about the Unknown Power and the personal obsession.” art.es, May-June, pp. 50-55. Magdalena Abakanowicz: Space of Stone. Text by Asplundh, Jacquie. Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey. HURMA. Text by Hermansdorfer, Mariusz. Espace d’Art Contemporain Andre-Malraux, Colmar, France [cat.]

2003 Dancing Figures. Text by Reichardt, Jasa. Marlborough Fine Art, London ( cat). Magdalena Abakanowicz: Tanzende und Schreitende. Text by Stanislawski, Ryszard. Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Dusseldorf, Germany ( cat)

Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body. Text by George Kinghorn. Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida Carruthers, Valerie. “JMOMA: A Cultural Institution’s Own Urban Renewal.” Arbus, May-June, pp. 52-61 Me and More. Text by Geers, Kendell, et al. Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland Asplundh, Jackie. “Confession of Stone.” Space of Stone, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey. Hubner, Karolina. “Lessons in Anatomy: Magdalena Abakanowicz’s Unrecognized.” Sculpture, April. Abakanowicz. Text by Barbara Rose. Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, Netherland [cat.] Magdalena Abakanowicz: Coexistence. Text by Malkowska, Monika. Marlborough Gallery, New York [cat.]

2002 Braff, P. “A Setting Worthy of the Sculptures.” The New York Times, Sunday, May 10 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Working Process e non Solo. Text by Abakanowicz, M., et al. Collezioni Gori, Prato, Italy Green, Roger. “Abakanowicz’s Colossal Work Goes on View in Sculpture Park.” The Grand Rapids Press, October 29. Magdalena Abakanowicz: Unrecognized. Text by Stanislawski, Ryszard, Rose, Barbara and Restany, Pierre. VOX – Artis Foundation, Poznan, Poland [cat.]

2001 Magdalena Abakanowicz: About the Human Condition. Text by Rose, Barbara. Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California [cat.] Magdalena Abakanowicz: About the Human Condition. Text by Rose, Barbara. Gerald Peters Gallery, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Santa Fe, Dallas [cat.] Magdalena Abakanowicz. Text by Stanislawski, Ryszard. Kunst - Station, Sankt Peter Koln, Cologne, Germany Muchnic, Suzanne. “She’s Turned Her Backs on the World.” The Los Angeles Times, Sunday March 25. Hixson, Kathryn. “Interview: Magdalena Abakanowicz.” New Art Examiner, April. Reif, Rita. “The Jackboot has Lifted. Now the Crowds Crush.” The New York Times, Sunday, June 3. Thomas, Mary. “Sculptor Treats Art as Sacred Creation.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 6. Cross, Guy. “Listen! This is Important.” The Santa Fe’s Monthly Magazine of the Arts, August. Randall, Teri Thomson. “Magdalena Abakanowicz.” The New Mexican Weekly Magazine of the Arts, August 3–9. Kutner, Janet. “Sculptor Shows Us Ourselves, Our Fears.” The Dallas Morning News, Sunday, November 25.

2000 Recent Exhibitions and Installations. Texts by Reichardt Jasia and Abakanowicz Magdalena. Marlborough Gallery, New York. [cat.]. Ninety Five Figures from the Crowd of One Thousand Ninety Five Figures. Text by Eleanor Heartney. Marlborough Gallery, New York. [cat.] Abakanowicz - Walking Figures. Text by Krukowski Wojciech, Wroblewska Danuta. Galeria Kordegarda, Warsaw [cat.]. Hübner, Karolina. “Difference and Repetition.” Sculpture, December.

1999 Duval, J.-L. “Magdalena Abakanowicz dans les Jardins du Palais Royal.” Connaissance des Arts, hors série, May, pp. 6-19. Lieberman, P. “It’s Not so Lonely at the Top.” Los Angeles Times, Sunday, May 9, pp. 51-52. Abakanowicz - Wild Flowers. Text by Mary Jane Jacob. Marlborough Gallery, New York. [cat.]

1998 Abakanowicz. Helsinki, Jerome. Gallery Starmach, Krakow, Poland [cat.]. “Shoulders Above the Rest.” The New York Times, Tuesday, April 27.

1997 Magdalena Abakanowicz - Mutants. Texts by Abakanowicz, Magdalena; Brenson, Michael. Marlborough Gallery, New York [cat.].

1996 Magdalena Abakanowicz. Text by Brenson, Michael. Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ. [cat.] Magdalena Abakanowicz - Bronze Sculpture. Book published in conjunction with the exhibition Magdalena Abakanowicz. Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno. Texts by Reichardt, Jasia; Abakanowicz, Magdalena; Collins, Judith, with an introduction by Murray, Peter.

1995 Abakanowicz. The monograph published in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition "Magdalena Abakanowicz" in the Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. Texts by Stanislawski, Ryszard; Brenson, Michael; Reichardt, Jasia; Abakanowicz, Magdalena. The Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.

1994 Rose, Barbara. Magdalena Abakanowicz. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

1993 Magdalena Abakanowicz - Sculpture. Text by Brenson, Michael. Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York. [cat.] Magdalena Abakanowicz - War Games. Text by Brenson, Michael; Heiss, Alanna; Abakanowicz, Magdalena. The Institute for Contemporary Art P.S.1 Museum, New York. [cat.]

1992 Paris- La Defense. L'Art Contemporain et l’Axe historique. Magdalena Abakanowicz, Piotr Kowalski, Jean- Pierre Raynaud, Alan Sonfist. Text by Daval, Jean-Luc; Viatte, Germain. Editions d'Art Alber Skira, Geneva and EPAD, Paris. pp 30 – 56

1991 Abakanowicz - Tangible Eternity. Text by Kato, Kuniko Lucy. International Art Research, Japan. Magdalena Abakanowicz. Published in conjunction with the 1991 traveling in Japan exhibition "Magdalena Abakanowicz": Sezon Museum of Art, Shiga; Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Gallery and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. Text by Abakanowicz, Magdalena; Hermansdorfer, Mariusz; Inui, Yoshiaki, with an introduction by Kobayashi, Masao. Sezon Museum of Art and Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan.

1988 Magdalena Abakanowicz. Text by Neray, Katalin and Hermansdorfer, Mariusz. Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary.

1987 Katarsis. Text by Restany, Pierre and Abakanowicz, Magdalena. Edizioni della Bezuga, sec. ed. 1990. Florence, Italy.

1986 La Sculpture XIX et XX Siecle. Text by Daval, Jean-Luc and Rose, Barbara. Geneva, Editions d'Art Albert Skira.

1982 "Magdalena Abakanowicz", the monograph published in conjunction with the exhibition "Magdalena Abakanowicz" organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and at other American Museums. Text by Jacob, Mary Jane; Abakanowicz, Magdalena; Reichardt, Jasia. Abbeville Press Publishers, New York